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If not France, then where for Feb Half term?
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Evening all. I'd like to ask you all about feb half term options if France is off the cards for a weeks skiing with a family of 4. All double vaccinated apart from one under 12.
Where would you suggest?
We're not ski gods but happy cruising blues reds and greens.
Thankyou
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It all depends on what you are looking for. My personal preference is to keep costs down and avoid lots of Brits.
Nassfeld in SE Austria (Carinthia). Fly to Ljubljana and hire a car. Stay at
https://www.hotel-sonnleitn.at/en/
or at
http://www.chaletkammleitn.com/
for a DIY trip
San Vigilio in Italy. Fly to Milan or Verona. Hire a car. Longer transfer but better quality. Stay at
www.mareo.it
or ring or email the tourist office - if you give them the dates and type of accommodation they will email you with a list of available accommodation - make sure you get somewhere close to San Vigilio though as some of the accommodation can be in the next valley or even further
https://www.sanvigilio.org/en/information.htm
Aosta Valley - plenty of choices. Fly to Turin.
Jungfrau region. Doesn't have to be top price. It's a balance between price and convenience. It's a few years since I was there - flew to Milan and got the train to Interlaken. Stayed at Boenigen and travelled on the narrow gauge ski train each day from Interlaken station (Interlaken Ost??)
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Thankyou JHS that's really apreciated. never considered Slovenia before, didn't know you ski there. I'll look into it this weekend.
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Not been skiing in Slovenia yet. But you can get cheap flights to Ljubljana and cheap car hire from there. And Nassfeld (on the Austrian / Italian border) isn’t far at all. There are plenty of other smaller resorts in Carinthia too.
If you are prepared to be a bit adventurous, then two resorts on my list as likely to be quiet(er) at UK half term are Jasna and Kopaonik. I have not been to either. May not be as family friendly from the point of view of modern infrastructure (I don’t know as I haven’t been) as more UK mainstream resorts.
San Vigilio (Kronplatz ski area) has a high level of good quality infrastructure.
You could also consider some of the lesser well known (amongst the Brits) Italian resorts such as Abetone
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We had exactly the same dilemma as we have an unvaccinated 14Y old (he is autistic and has a fear of needles but that's a different story) and an 11Y old ... We were due to spend HT in La Tania (as we have done for the last 5 years) but I expect Macron to only partially lift the ban on Brits next week, insisting that unvaccinated teens (at best) need to test every couple of days (as is the case in Austria and Italy). That will be a complete pain in the backside and frankly not very relaxing. Switzerland is currently allowing unvaccinated teens up to the age of 16 to enter and access restaurants, hotels and ski lifts ... so we have booked a lovely hotel in Grindelwald. There's still availability in Grindelwald and Wengen (part of the lovely Jungfrau area) and critically hotels offer attractive cancellation terms (full refund if you cancel >7 days before arrival). For us this was the game-changer.
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